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Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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looks like we are just getting another lame duck democrat with a watered-down plan that does nothing in the end for the US people
we still need the minimum wage raised for everybody too but democrats think raising it just for the federal workers somehow translates to all people and we need universal healthcare
another wasted four years we could be fixing shit here we go again
goodbye progress
and no one holds the Democrats liable for doing nothing because it is all the Republicans fault
you can already hear the next repeat election
Jesus Christ bro, all you fucking do is bitch and cry about every little thing a Democrat does but have no reaction when it's a fucking republican. Just stfu with your apathetic bs
Block him and be done with it.
If everyone reasonable blocks them, nobody is left to downvote and push back and their messaging reaches more susceptible voters.
Zero-blocklist fam rise up
Think of the Day 1 users on here! “Wow Lemmy is cool except for the five wild comments at the bottom of each thread, each with five upvotes* and no pushback” *from each other
Too much fun laughing at him/her
I'm pretty liberal myself, but calm tfd dude. It's an open platform and in fighting only improves the democrats
Pressuring Democrats to deliver for the working class is a good thing. Organizing around these issues show them that they're important and not a liability, but an asset. My guess is they're taking big insurance money and that's why they aren't going to deliver on healthcare save for some very minor changes.
Get off the cross, we need the wood
While I do hate the 2 party system, and believe that we ranked choice voting to see any improvements, I will absolutely vote for a lame duck over a wanna be dictator every time.
There is a culture war that needs to be won before a platform can successfully run on all Progressive policies. As it stands now the faintest wiff of socialism causes knee-jerk 'not mah BBQ!' reactions and would cause a Conservative run in congress. How'd that look for progress, hmm?
Expecting progress to be instantaneous and comprehensive to your exact particular specifications is ~~foolish~~ unrealistic and counterproductive to the extent this actually appears to be your intent.
my grandfather was that told that same story his whole childhood and he repeated it his son who repeated it to me and am not repeating it to my kids
instantaneous progress does not always happen but in hundred years something should be getting done not reversing
Democrats have averted progress in lieu of not being instantaneous and it is a complete load of horse shit kind of excuse
You can't actually believe we are worse off now than 100 years ago. Yes, some things are going backwards, like roe due to Republicans. That's from 1973, so Republicans have brought us back 50 years.
100 years ago we didn't have minimum wage, child labor laws, or weekends
Women had only just been allowed to vote, and it would be another 40 years until the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
And none of this is meant to discount the current struggles people are experiencing. The millennia of struggle we've sought freedom from hierarchy continues. We deserve to be truly free in the way those labor unions, women, and formerly formally enslaved people demanded over the overseers of our society. I say all this to make it abundantly clear I'm aware of the systemic issues at play this election, and to also make it clear that my endorsement of Kamala Harris is mainly begrudgingly based on that of the candidates she's the most least worst. We need to keep this energy going in state and local elections. We need to keep this energy going when there isn't an election at all. We need to realize those labor unions, women, and formally enslaved people fought for those rights with tools of war. They won our weekends and minimum wage and child labor laws with blood. We don't repay them by saying things used to be better. We repay them by maintaining pressure
How immature and naive.
If that IS true it is only due to your kind of defeatism. You do not benefit your cause at all QQing with no realistic solution, which is why I think your obvious goal is actually a conservative win through voter apathy. Thank goodness it is failing (literally) miserably.
We’ve seen an interesting cycle that was much shorter with corporations announcing* progressive intents, then announcing they’d forget about all that.
* not saying they should be believed, just saying their public-facing stances shifted (within maybe 5 years)